<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><DIV>Not having done more than read the docs/faq/etc, I'm going to go on a limb and echo this. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>My motivation for using kadischi is the ability to create various custom live cds ala INSERT, Knoppix but based on the flavor of linux I know inside and out. Although creating custom RPMs could theoretically get me there, I can see two problems with this approach</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>First... the subjective objection... Some tasks just feel wrong (to me) in a RPM ... such as modifying Desktop Patterns and menus. </DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Second... a practical one... When I'm first trying something out, I'd like some simpler option. Right now (if I read the docs write), I've got a number of post-RPM ways to modify the CD. If people no longer have a way to make and test something before creating an entire RPM, it's going to real hurt the usefulness of this tool. Right now, it feels like a progression of ways to make modifications that can be used as appropriate. Granted I'm exagerating, but I've never liked having to build a factory before I can see if my sink idea is any good.</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>my (uninformed?) 2cents...</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV>Tim Wood</DIV><DIV><BR class="khtml-block-placeholder"></DIV><DIV><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"></SPAN> </DIV><BR><DIV><DIV>On Jan 18, 2006, at 8:50 AM, Bill Nottingham wrote:</DIV><BR class="Apple-interchange-newline"><BLOCKQUOTE type="cite"><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">I wouldn't go that far. There still should be support for a %post</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">in kadischi, even if it's just for things like enabling/disabling</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">services, writing out a default config (point at your local LDAP</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">server? NFS server?), etc.<SPAN class="Apple-converted-space"> </SPAN>It's just that the raw bits to actually</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">run sanely in R/O mode shouldn't need to be in kadischi.</FONT></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 12.0px Helvetica; min-height: 14.0px"><BR></P> <P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT face="Helvetica" size="3" style="font: 12.0px Helvetica">Bill</FONT></P> </BLOCKQUOTE></DIV><BR></BODY></HTML>